Our Sages could have been talking about today's abandonment of Jews and principles to gain the Muslim vote when they wrote: “Be cautious with the government, for they only bring a person close to them for their own needs."
Today's Jewish predicament parallels the Mandate period in its players - the enemy, the governing power and ourselves - but there are crucial differences that make it clear that things will get worse, not better for diaspora Jewry. Opinion.
Cowardice is an effective survival strategy for effete westerners, but courage emerges in Iran where fear no longer has any power. Opinion.
Enforcement, the single factor that determines whether Phase II exists at all, is treated as an afterthought, but naming Phase II without defining its mechanics is not leadership. And it will lead to war. Opinion.
Antisemitism, institutional failure and the quiet shame of being grateful for what should be automatic. Opinion.
Israel must now navigate a dangerous northern front where the "Victory Doctrine" of its neighbors-specifically Turkey-has succeeded in replacing a pluralistic buffer with a centralized Islamist-aligned cage. Opinion.
Despite all that Josh did for Israel, its Defense Ministry abandoned him and his loved ones after he died. Oped.
Israel has emerged as the most vocal advocate for the Iranian people, while the much-touted Islamic "Ummah" watches the slaughter from the sidelines. An upside-down situation that can lead to a better future for Israel and Iran. Opinion.
Canceling his performances in Israel over Netanyahu’s treatment of the “whole Palestinian issue," the venerated conductor hypocritically asserts that music can’t be separated from politics. Opinion.
Jews do not belong in Britain, but they do not belong in America either. Opinion.
Miami Beach now stands where many cities have stood before it-often too late. Will it be a place where antisemitism is confronted early, honestly, and forcefully? Opinion.
The decision by the White House to include an anti-Israel Turkish extremist in a key position on the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza is outrageous. Opinion.
MLK Jr.'s strong partnership with Jews and support for Israel was grounded in mutual responsibility and moral discipline, not ideological conformity. Attempts to minimize his pro-Jewish stance are ignorant at best, lies at worst. Opinion.
It is time to stop apologizing, to stop pleading for understanding. It is time to return to the language of justice. Opinion.
There is a kind of unspoken pact in which leftists and Muslims living in Western countries do not criticize fellow Muslims even if they are massacring other Muslims. Opinion.
Julani has shown exactly who he is. The videos, the prisoner releases, the ideological fingerprints-they are not echoes of ISIS. They are continuity. Ameriica must stop it now. Israel must help. Opiinion.
Presidencies come and go but Israel’s interests transcend any particular presidency and the vagaries of who holds the office during any particular four-year term. Discontinuity is democracy’s flaw. Op-ed.
Disengaging from these bodies is not isolationism. It is an act of strategic hygiene. Opinion.
Generally, in Trump we trust, but in this instance his instincts may be a touch unreliable. Opinion.
APR is a dangerous term that suggests that trying to combat antisemitism is itself racist against Palestinian Arabs. A full report is linked below. Op-ed.
These are dark times for the Jewish People, but we are not without hope. And our fire will not be consumed.
Does the world understand that a nation of ninety million people is being held hostage by wild clerics who rule through fear, bullets, and graves? Opinion.
Iran bleeds and the world talks. History will not judge who issued the most carefully worded statements, but who stood on the right side when a nation demanded freedom. Opinion.
What Hezbollah and our local Islamists are up to is what’s called hybrid or unconventional warfare. Opinion.
At a cost exceeding sixty billion dollars and located forty-five kilometers deep into the desert, the new capital was designed not for governance but for insulation. Will it work? Opinion.
“When the eco-citizen claims to ask the most disturbing question-‘What world will we leave to our children?’-he avoids asking the truly unsettling one: ‘To which children will we leave the world?’".
To attribute this revolt to Israel is to deny Iranians their humanity and their courage. How paternalistic. Shame on Candace Owens. Opinion.
Ending the Islamic regime in Tehran would help reset the West’s moral compass. Opinion.
There is a master plan behind Trump's behavior towards Iran and Hamas - and it gets results. Opinion.
This is not a government losing control. It is a regime behaving exactly as it always has. Opiniion.
An historic missed opportunity that will cost at the ballot box. Op-ed.
The movement that turned out en masse to demonize the State of Israel for defending itself is uninterested in the slaughter of Iranians. Maybe it’s because they can’t blame it on the Jews. Opinion.
More Christians in the Qatar than in Israel, as Tucker claims? Yes, but they live under a system that international labor experts identify as meeting the criteria for forced labor and modern slavery. Opinion.
In New York City, synagogues require police barricades and families hide Stars of David under their coats due to violent anti-Israel protestors, but NY's attorney general acted only against Betar, the group which fought back. Opinion.
India and Israel, though vastly different in terms of size, geography, and population, have a uniquely strong partnership based on many common strengths and challenges. Opinion.
For decades leading up to the atrocities of October 7, the top echelons of the Israeli leadership wildly misjudged the realities that prevailed in Gaza. Opinion.
To allow a weakened, cornered Hamas to project an image of dominance in the heart of Jerusalem by alowing its flag to fly on the Temple Mount would be to grant them a strategic lifeline precisely when they must face the reality that their war aims have failed. Opinion.
The Islamic Forever War against Israel is a continuation of Islamic history and not an aberration. Peace with Israel in this view, is not only impossible-it is heretical. Review.
Khamenei leaving the scene is not the same as the regime falling. Opinion.
Textbooks most clearly reflect the way in which a society seeks to instill its principles in the minds of its youth. PA textbooks clearly contradict its commitments under the Oslo Accords. Op-ed.
He is dangerous bcause he is effective. He is a good salesman. The Jews are his merchandise. Opinion.
Many Jewish educators the world over describe a growing sense of strain as they wrestle with the same underlying questions of identity facing their students, even as their realities differ. Op-ed.
Weaponizing religion as a political tool is an immoral tool - look at the hadiths that promote jihad. Opinion.
The organizational infrastructure of Hamas must be pulverized beyond the point of reconstitution. Nothing short of that can work. Certaiinly not a repeat of Arafat's move to Tunis. Opinion.
The people who haven’t stopped shouting about injustice since Oct 7th 2023 suddenly cannot find their voices on Iran. But from Moses to Joseph, From Iran to Britain, the price of refusing to speak never changes. Opinion.
How group-psychology status seeking and quasi-religious fervor make anti-Israel activism resistant to logic, evidence, and dialogue. Opinion.
The fact that in Western squares no one demonstrates for the heroic Iranians, but only for the cutthroats, does not bode well. Opinion
Revolutions are judged by what they overthrow; governments are judged by what they protect. And here, the record grows troubling. Opinion.
Jews funded the American Revolution-and why that truth matters now. Reminder that religious freedom in America was not invented in theory. It was earned in battle-and paid for in Jewish coin. Op-ed.
Ankara’s foreign policy relies on a "double game" that exploits its membership in NATO while subverting the security of its allies. Opinion.
Jihadi Islam is the fundamental evil driving violence and oppression in the Middle East and beyond. The Jewish people and the Jewish state of Israel are the answer. Op-ed.
Their Iranian civilians' courage and resolve should be a wake-up call for freedom loving people everywhere. Opiinion.
This isn’t a list of banal, cliché habits you’ll read in an “Introduction to Israel" pamphlet. These are the invisible instincts you only absorb by living here. Opinion.
The template for organizing self defense already exists. Just look at Hatzalah. Violence is coming to us whether we like it or not. It’s up to us to choose how we respond to it. Opinion,
Iran's race to rebuild is the real danger to Israel, writes the Alma Research Center in this report.
The war the West won’t name - or fight -- is coming to everyone's doorstep. Iran's regime, the major sponsor of terror, may fall, but there are others waiting to take over. Opinion.
Exactly forty-seven years after the civilized departure of the late Shah from Iran, the Crown Prince is prepared to return. Opinion.
The great Harold Bloom knew he had lost: “For fifty years I have fought the death of the humanities, but we have lost the war, and all I can do now is a kind of guerrilla action. The barbarians have taken over the academy."
Spain’s "Permit to Hate" is a result of govt rhetoric that birthed the 'Barcelonaz' terror map. Will there be another Jewish exodus? Op-ed.
